Christchurch Boys High School War Memorial

Here on the far side of the playing fields at Christchurch Boys High School is a neo gothic construct that is matched to many of the city's churches and heritage buildings, but was built later in the piece (1926 alongside the school buildings) and exudes a symmetry and stature without a hint of creepyness.
Elegant and perfectly formed, it hosts an internal carved panel featuring the wrenching wording from Rupert Brooke's 'The Dead' in attractive neo gothic capitals. Also carved in stone are the names of the 142 old boys who didn't return from WW1. Other old boys paid for the shrine. The design was by Samuel Hurst Seagar and the mason was Henry Silvester.

Services are held here and the beauty of it's location on the wide school playing fields means that no schoolboy or visitor will be excluded.

The memorial features in the Jock Phillips book 'To the memory, New Zealand's War memorials.'